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This degree will make you put many hours into your studies. It is a hard subject in general. That being said, once you graduate you will be incredibly proud of yourself. Not only this but electronics are such a huge field in today’s society, and they will keep expanding as time goes on.

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NIU is a well known university for engineering. There are many companies in the area that look for students that graduated, or will graduate, from NIU.

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A lot of the classes you will take require a lab. These labs are very up-to-date technology wise. There are multiple labs through the engineering building. These include the signal processing, power, sensor, microelectronic, and robotic labs.

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NIU offers two main areas of study. One being biomedical, and the other being electrical and computer. They both mainly focus on hardware, but software is taught throughout the classes as well. Getting a computer science minor doesn’t require too many extra classes If someone wanted to do so.

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You will learn how to use IC’s, FPGA’s, capacitors,  resistors, and many other electrical components.

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You will find yourself in a pickle as most people say when doing homework and studying. Most of the students are probably struggling with you. So making friendships can be very useful so all of you can build off of each other’s ideas. This can be very beneficial when you get to your ELE classes. Making friends is very easy because most of the people in one of your classes will be in other classes of yours.

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You will be taking classes like Signals and Systems, Power Systems, Computer Engineering, Semiconductive materials, Microelectronics, and other electrical classes. These classes will help with the fundamentals, which you will use later on when doing senior design and 400 level classes.

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Homework can be time consuming and difficult, but the homework will almost always prepare you for the exam.

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At NIU there are many different ways to get help with homework and material. Every class has a TA that has office hours to help, as well as the teacher having office hours. They also have a help room where there are at least 6 TA’s available, and they all have the knowledge to help with many of the classes.